THWARTED! The nap was a total fake out. They are up and running around.

My xmas gift to my family this year is inside pants. Everyone got sweatpants today.

Man, I miss IV compazine. By now, it's blown up into the most perfect anti-emetic in the world, but zofran and reglan are inconsistent, and oral compazine not strong enough. But the US manufacturers apparently stopped making it proactively--some quality issue they wanted to clear up, and that seems to have taken out 1/3 - 1/4 of the commonly available IV nausea medications (for some reason I don't get offered phenergan much--just zofran first, and reglan a distant second). And, naturally, it's the anti-emetic which is supposed to have independent migraine remedy effects (aside from clearing up the nausea, I mean).

Last (proper) dose should be coming soon. Meanwhile I'm trying to eat a plain bagel with butter. I do love the graham crackers, but you can only snarf so much of them. Especially since they're in two cracker packages, and each nurse gives two packages at a time. I've been spreading around who I ask to get me more--they think I'm a drugseeker? I'm a crackerseeker,, that's what.

I love the nurses who say I won't get pain meds without a pee test. Us here, we know there's no reason to check for fetus-on-board (I'm assuming a Messiah would have a kick ass fetal barrier). I peed before I left the house, I'm good (like unable to produce even with fluid binging.) for hours. Last time they admitted me, I managed to stay in bed 24 hours straight (I'm not sure where the best place for a "literally" is in that statement--it applies to it all), which is why I don't get runpee. And, yes, I'm drinking.

Anyway, this observation physician's attendant is strongly on my side--the side of simplicity, efficiency, and expediency in treating my migraines, and as of yet, has not failed to justify the doses with her attending. Inasmuch as there are psychological commonalities across occupations, I wonder what the difference between physician's assistant and physician itself is in their psyche.

Matt, that reminded me of the picture I found on my phone when cleaning up the galleries the other day--it's one of those extra large SUVs which could have filled the compact space they chose (at least at the times I saw it, there were normal spaces available) edge to edge, but they decided to slant *and* not pull in enough, so they were not only taking an extra spot, but poking out into the driving lane. Whatever it was, I hope it was sincerely urgent.

I was also thinking about carphones the other day. What kind of market penetration did they have? During the 90s I was mostly living with the BMW-with-all-the-extras obsessive side of my family, and they all considered it required equipment. But with the relatively quickly ensuing market, the idea of having a phone number tied to you car seems a bit ridiculous. Your mother is out of the house for the day, and you're hoping when you call she'll be driving from one task to the next? I imagine they were paying through the roof for these things too, with precarious reception even though the entire rear window was an antenna.

I guess it's primarily outgoing calls, and primarily from people in the front seats to boot, remembering how theirs were set up. So, basically illegal now, at least for the ones my cousins used, since they weren't hands free--they had the same curly cord between handset and base unit as land line phones.

It came to mind because I was trying to think of the usefulness of having your car be a Wi Fi hotspot with internet access, and maybe also VPN to the home network, but with security, natch. It could be kinda useful if the car is often full, but even that window might be disappearing, if everyone gets phone service with their tablets, or Times Warner ever makes good on their plans to light up LA, for instance. And if you're basically installing a phone into the dashboard and connecting over 4G, there are a couple unlimited data plans left, right?

It was always the bagphone (satellite) that I was aware of, so although not technically tied to the car, it was functionally, because, massive. And the people I knew were using it on long long drives.

My car is a hotspot, but not all the time. I carry the mifi and we use it in and near the car more or less constantly. In fact, I now have two, because of stupid, and I'm thinking about just leaving the one in there. The issue would be that the Pilot doesn't have retained accessory power, so it would discharge itself all the time, but I think we're on the road enough to charge it and make it worthwhile. Might shorten the overall life.

So it turns out everyone goes to Trader Joe's in the late afternoon on Saturday? What a mess! I guess I got everything I went for, though.

Homer is having a lot of trouble walking. He's going for it, though! Went and ate a little and jumped back up on the sofa. But I'm starting to worry that next weekend will be too late? I guess I'm trying to find the perfect time before he's too miserable, but as long as he's not totally miserable, I keep thinking not yet. Poor little Homer.

I can turn my phone into a hotspot and have unlimited data, and I went out of my way to have both those things partially because I have been on long drives when having connectivity available while driving would have been a godsend (for passenger use, perhaps I should clarify) The other part mostly being my image of myself as a person who will sit out in the middle of a park or wilderness area and work on my laptop. I don't know that I have ever actually done that, but if I don't have the capability I feel unnecessarily constrained.

Poor Homer. That's a hard decision to have to make.

I always assume TJ's on the weekend will be packed.

I always assume TJ's on the weekend will be packed.

True. I think usually I go more in the middle of the day, when people are doing other things.

I have never been to a TJ's and not had it been packed, to my eye. Of course, I live in the desert, so my expectations may be skewed.

OTOH, the big name drummer who I visited in Nashville? His wife works at TJ's (for the insurance, she actually has a library science degree and hopes to get into the Nashville system, anybody have connections? Forgot to ask Kate about it when we were visiting.) and gave me pumpkin spice chai and candy cane green tea out of her stash. Whoot!

Kids are outside yelling their fool heads off. As it should be. I'm hiding inside.

At work, they will no longer support printers in classrooms. So if you want toner, you have to buy it yourself.

No. Seriously. So in addition to buying paper, books, tissues, pens, copy paper for my students, I also have to buy toner now? That being said, I have a remanned toner cartridge for my printer and for a classroom copier I have sitting on my table. Finals start monday. I have not been able to copy or print this week.

Some times, I think, I just don't want to teach that much.

WTF, Kat, that's stupid. (The school lack of funding, that is, not you not wanting to teach.) It baffles me why we continue to place education at such a low priority in this country. It fucking matters, peoples!